It’s Raphaëlle who speaks, who knows what she wants and doesn’t want. She is married to François. These two lead brilliant careers within a group listed on the Cac 40, those lives where we walk hard, where we take planes like we blow our noses, where we lead, undertake, 40 both years old, he graduated from HEC, she from Edhec, two brilliant careers. She says: “We met at the end of our studies. We each did our gap year in this group. We met through mutual friends. When I landed there, François was already working there, I was returning from international corporate volunteering (VIE)far away in the United States, but I knew I wanted to find this box. »
“We have the same employer but not the same life”
Raphaëlle is talking about a very large company, one of those “where everything is very vertical”with several very distinct sections separated geographically in the Paris region and which radiate internationally. “So we don’t meet on a daily basis, each in their own division. I could almost say that we have the same employer but not the same life”.
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What about life as a couple when you live as a couple and work within the same large company? How do we manage daily life, travel, requests for new positions? According to a Randstadt study, moreover, and while 62% of employees have already had a romantic relationship with a colleague, the French would be quicker to take the step of an intimate relationship in a (very) large company: 33% employees of groups of more than 5,000 employees, compared to 22% in companies with fewer than ten employees. More anonymous no doubt, and less restrictive.
“I don’t talk about it, a way of keeping my garden secret”
Raphaëlle and François have never flaunted their relationship. “We don’t hide it, she said. We are not required to declare that we are in a relationship or married. But we rarely say it. I have not changed my name in the internal directory. I prefer that we don’t know too much. » For what ? “Because it suits me quite well to have, vis-à-vis others, quite differentiated personal and professional lives. »
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